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A fourth woman has come forward to accuse actor Chris Noth of sexual assault, claiming he forcibly kissed and groped her in her New York apartment in 2002.

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Kim Potter, the white former Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright in April, has been convicted after appearing to mistake her handgun for a Taser during a deadly traffic stop.

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The holiday weekend is quickly approaching, and chances are, you’ve spent the last couple of months shopping for gifts for everyone on your list—except for yourself.

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It was bound to be a bitter fight to the very end.

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Parenthood is messy. It’s fun, but fraught. Moments of abject clarity often precede colossal confusion and while some days are stimulating, others are soundly monotonous. But any parent will tell you that raising a human being is a game-changer, one that not only shifts the way we see ourselves, but also the way we see the world.

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His grandmother is the head of the Church of England and goes by the title Defender of the Faith, but Prince Harry opted not to include the word “Christmas” on a “family holiday card” released today by himself and Meghan Markle—the card shows the first publicly shared image of their daughter Lilibet.

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As federal prosecutors increasingly use an obscure criminal charge to jail Jan. 6 insurrectionists, congressional investigators seem to be building a case that could result in that same charge against former President Donald Trump.

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Kathy Hilton swears she can tell the difference between soft drinks.

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The Silent Sea is the story of a group of astronauts who are sent to an abandoned off-world outpost full of fluorescent lights and white and gray décor, and dark, dank hallways and navigable air vents. At this station, the visitors locate a lone inhabitant who may want one of them as their surrogate mother, and they eventually learn that their mission is not what it first appeared, thanks to the ulterior motives of their bigwig bosses. There’s also, of course, an extraterrestrial menace that threatens to doom them all... Читать дальше...

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CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico—In the dead of night this fall, 12 migrants left the small northern Mexican town of Coyame to enter the vast Chihuahuan desert, with the hopes of crossing into the U.S. by way of the Texas border. Among them was a 14-year-old boy from Southern Mexico who was dreaming of reuniting with his family on the other side of the border.

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At the beginning of 2021, CNN was on top of the cable news world.

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Inflation is at record highs. Roe v. Wade is in limbo. Voting rights are under attack. The filibuster is intact. Student debt isn’t canceled. Climate change is unaddressed. And the Build Back Better Act—the cornerstone of President Joe Biden’s agenda—looks doomed.

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According to Subindu Garkhel, the head of cotton and textiles at the Fairtrade Foundation, making just 2.2 pounds of lint that’s used in clothing requires about 510 gallons of water. That’s roughly the same amount of water that the average person actually drinks in three years—all for material that might cost around $10 dollars to buy. Large, complex items like a pair of jeans might need as much as 2,000 gallons of water.

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Having started 2021 full of optimism, Joe Biden ends the year having disappointed progressive Democrats like AOC, moderate Democrats like Joe Manchin, Republicans who crossed party lines to support his policies, and the American people (and that’s not to mention the people of Afghanistan).

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Back when I smoked weed, there was no more cherished feeling than baking a small tray of cookies, taking a big ol’ rip of a classic strain, and flipping on one of the two media properties I had discovered in the depths of my stoned haze: Star Trek and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Both are casual, chatty, occasionally transcendent. They depend a lot on acting and character work, and tend to live and die on the strength of whatever hero they’re centered around.

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President Joe Biden claimed on Wednesday that he doesn’t see it as a “failure” of his administration that there has been a dire shortage of COVID-19 tests amid the recent explosion in cases due to the Omicron variant.

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This story contains references to suicide. If you or someone you know is thinking of suicide, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255, or text TALK to the Crisis Text Line at 741741. Also: Trans Lifeline is at 1-877-565-8860.

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A baseless claim of a bioweapons attack in the form of anthrax pouring from fog machines at a far-right QAnon-friendly ReAwaken America Tour event earlier this month in Texas has left conspiracy theorists petrified.